Love is dangerous

 Ms.Harris

ENGL 2016-44378
12-3-21
Reid Guirlando

Love is dangerous

I believed there is a potential correlation between the way that slaves lived in a relationship stand point with the way African American's lives in a relationship today in modern day. Slaves went through some of the worst of history, They were used and mistreated for years and was subject to horrible activities. They were taken and traded away from their home country and brought to a new land. The passage alone just to get to the United states was hell but that was just the start of what was yet to come. While here, they were overworked, beaten, slaughtered, malnourished and completely mistreated physically in every way imaginable. Not only were they abused physically, but emotionally and psychologically.

Being a slave has so many challenges, and there are multiple of those challenges that has affected modern day life's of African Americans. Back in the slaves time, a dangerous challenge was simply love, getting attach to someone, finding your soul mate or even having children's. This was so dangerous for the fact of losing them. Fear overwhelmed everything and knowing your soulmate or your child can be taken away from you with it being 100% out of your control is scary. Its scary to think that someone you love so much is being beaten, whipped, abused physically and offend time sexually and you cant realistically prevent it without being punished even worst.

Even after slavery was so called “abolished”, slavery was still being practiced through a form of share cropping. Thousands of African American left without anywhere to go and no hope of finding a job, farmers would have former slaves live on there land for free basically and work for them for near to no money. Those that moved away to cities or other towns still were subjected to the racist acts of the United states and battle to where they are today in modern civilization

.There is a glaring discrepancy between the single parent rate among African Americans in the United States compared to any other race and culture. The single motherhood rate among African Americans in the United States is 67%. That is an insane amount of children who have to go through that. For every African American child you see, there is about a ¾ chance that they are growing up with parents that are not together. The reason for this popular occurrence of single mothers among African Americans is related back to the fact of historically speaking, that fear of commitment could have resonated from slave days to modern day and impacted the culture as a whole.

All and all, there is obviously a problem, but I believe there is a solution. It might not happen overnight but in due time I feel like the African American community can overcome this obstacle, just as they’ve overcome every other obstacle that has come their way.








Work cited


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_structure#:~:text=About%2067%20percent%20of%20black,into%20a%20single%20parent%20household.

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